If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWatch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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